Spotlight’s UI dissected like a bug
Posted on August 4, 2005
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Two posts ago I summarized my dislike for Spotlight’s UI with the pithy, clever, yet perhaps a little succinct
But in this paraticular case I really dislike the implementation. I dislike how it sorts and orders things as they come in. I dislike the icons it displays. I dislike where it appears on my screen since I’m almost never looking in that corner when I want something.
however Rory Prior over at Think Mac has written a far more verbose “Bad UI in OS X - Spotlight” which defines the anti-Mac UI weirdness that is the Spotlight interface:
The items on the right act as rudimentary radio button groups. In a saner reality than this one they would take the form of table column headers and popup buttons. But in this reality they are a list of rather awkward hyperlinks. Only they don’t behave like hyperlinks, they don’t underline and you can click them and scrub the mouse up and down to move between them. Like, um, well no other standard Cocoa control, but very much like the default behaviour of an NSMatrix (these are sometimes used to layout grids of controls in Cocoa apps, like the tabs in NewsMac Pro).
Good stuff, yo.
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